The sun and the moon turned, the white horse passed through the gap, and before I knew it, a year and a half had passed.

At this time it was the twenty-fifth year of the August of Yongli.

The autumn equinox is approaching, and the people are preparing to sow wheat, while the corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes in the fields have been harvested and fruitful.

Although this year's Great Summer experienced an unprecedented summer, with severe drought in a large area and a significant reduction in rice production, fortunately, the diversified cultivation of potatoes, corn and sweet potatoes did not leave the hard-working people without harvesting.

Since Shen Wansan returned from sailing in March last year and brought back sweet potatoes and cotton, the Great Xia Imperial Court began to comprehensively promote new crops in the territory, forcing the people to plant, after a year and a half of promotion, at this moment, whether it is the territory of Great Xia or the newly expanded fourteen states of Anxi, all are diversified planting, and the people are naturally happy to close their mouths after seeing the advantages of the new crops.

On the other hand, the other five countries are miserable.

The northernmost Yuan country has experienced a severe winter of minus 40 degrees, and countless cattle, sheep and horses have frozen to death. Finally waited until the ice and snow melted, the temperature rose suddenly, and under a series of blows, there was turmoil in the Yuan State, and in order to appease the tribes, the Khan of the Yuan State once again waved his troops south to plunder the Qi State.

It's just that... The northern part of Qi has been robbed of ten rooms and ten empties, and when the winter cools down and the summer is dry, the yield of fertile land in the northern part of Qi has been greatly reduced or even no grain has been harvested, making the people of Qi who are already short of food even more difficult. Therefore, in the face of the invading Yuan army, the remaining people in the north also left their homes and migrated to the south as refugees.

The Yuan army had no choice but to continue to plunder south.

At this time, in the territory of Qi State, peasant uprisings sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the number of them made the Qi Emperor so anxious that he scratched his head and frantically suppressed them. And the three rebel armies led by them were very fierce, and had already occupied several states and established themselves as kings.

Now that the Yuan army is looting, Emperor Qi is paralyzed on the dragon chair, and he is no longer able to gather troops to fight against the Yuan army.

The only thing that made Emperor Qi happy was that the soldiers and horses of Great Xia had never moved, and they had been stationed in Fengtian. However, the territory south of Fengtian City has also been reduced to the territory of Great Xia, and it was originally expected that the righteous soldiers of Qi could rise up to resist, but who knew that it would take less than a year to surrender to Great Xia, once again verifying the law of true incense.

Now that Qi's internal strife is non-stop, foreign enemies are not stopped, and it is only one more disaster before it falls apart.

The situation in Yan and Wei is also not optimistic.

The two countries fought a truce for a few months, God did not spare any country, Yan and Wei have some places with thousands of miles of red land, and some places also have floods, the disaster tortures the country, how can there be a mood to fight, the people have been living and rely on the imperial court for relief, and the country does not dare to make a big move to waste storage resources.

And then there was the mighty state of Qin.

Again, God has not spared any country.

There was also a drought and locust plague in Qin, especially the terrifying locusts that swept through several counties of Great Qin, resulting in no grain harvest. However, the Qin State is old-fashioned, and it is not as flustered as the Qi State and the Yan State. Look at the Qin Emperor, he actually waved 200,000 troops, went north from the occupied Zhao land, and began to capture the Yuan Dynasty. Emperor Qin has never forgotten his great cause of dominating the world, in his opinion, the more frequent disasters, this is an opportunity to take advantage of the general trend to dominate China!

That's right, conforming to the situation of the heavens, this is indeed the best opportunity to unify Shenzhou, because disasters will hit every country hard, but unfortunately, Emperor Qin has encountered a great Xia!

At this time, in the palace of Qin, the Qin Emperor was discussing with the prime minister.

On the dragon case in front of Emperor Qin, there were corn, potatoes, cotton, and sweet potatoes, which were naturally stolen from Great Xia, because the entire territory of Great Xia had been fully diversified and planted this year, and this result brought terror to Emperor Qin.

The people of their own country have reduced their grain production or even have no harvest, so why can Great Xia, which also suffered from disasters, still have a bumper harvest?

As early as the previous year, there was an agent who told Emperor Qin, saying that Emperor Daxia was promoting a new crop and forcing the people to plant it.

Li Si, the prime minister of Qin, was introducing the yield and advantages of the new crop, and the more he listened, the more Qin Huang's eyelids jumped.

"These four new crops simply appeared to survive the disaster, and they have never appeared in the Shenzhou Continent before, why did they suddenly appear?" Emperor Qin said angrily.

Prime Minister Li Si said: "Your Majesty, the minister suspects that Great Xia was found from other regions through sailing, and this is the only reason that can be explained. Moreover, for more than a year, all the focus of the work of the Great Xia Emperor has been around the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the people, building roads, digging rivers, promoting new crops, and allowing the people to dig coal mines... Emperor Xia seemed to know that the heavens and the earth were in turmoil, and disasters were everywhere. ”

"Can we in Daqin promote this new crop now?" Emperor Qin asked.

Li Si sighed and said: "Returning to Your Majesty, it is very difficult, if you want to promote the seeds needed in the entire territory of the Qin State, there is a huge amount of seeds, and now the Xia Kingdom prohibits the trade of these four new crops, and once it is discovered, it will be severely punished, especially for our Great Qin, it is even more strictly guarded." Even if we smuggle some seeds back, it will take years, if not longer, to spread the world! ”

Emperor Qin was so angry that he slapped the dragon case and scolded: "Angry! Emperor Xia was really insidious, and he made a fortune in a muffled voice. Even if it takes a long time, it must be promoted, otherwise the strength of Great Qin and Xia Kingdom will become more and more disparity. The widow also saw that this disaster would not stop, and there was even a situation that was getting worse and worse. ”

"Wechen obeyed the order and tried his best to get new crops!" Li Si replied.

Emperor Qin nodded, and then said: "The new crop is a sharp blade hanging on the head, and the gunpowder is the knife that pierces the heart." How's the gunpowder investigation? ”

Li Xi sighed: "Back to Your Majesty, Xia Guo is very cautious about the production and use of gunpowder, and Weichen tried his best to get some, but there are a lot of confusing things in gunpowder, so it is difficult to calculate the finished product by analyzing Xia Guo's gunpowder." Therefore, Weichen can only let the alchemist study it himself. If there is some success, but the power... The power is far inferior to the gunpowder of the Xia Kingdom! ”

"I know that the power is not as good as the gunpowder of the Xia Kingdom! Then there has to be a comparison, how much worse? Emperor Qin asked.

Li Si replied: "Only one-tenth of the power, or even less!" ”

Emperor Qin was startled, stood up suddenly, and asked, "What?" One-tenth of the power? So what does we do when we study gunpowder? ”

Li Si was silent.

Emperor Qin was jealous and angry, and roared: "Xia Kingdom, Xia Kingdom, is it that God favors Emperor Xia?" Not only did they get new crops, but they also had gunpowder, a magic weapon! For example, it has spread today that the death of Zhao Guo was blown up by the prince of Xia with gunpowder! The widow shuddered to think about it now! If it weren't for the news of the gunpowder leaking out, wouldn't it be easy for the Xia Kingdom to blow up the widows? ”

"What's even more infuriating is that Emperor Xia has such a divine weapon, and he actually used him to blow up mountains and open roads, build rivers, if it is given to me, I can completely sweep the five countries and unify Shenzhou!"

"Tyrannical creatures!"

……

Li Si quietly listened to Emperor Qin's roar, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Is Emperor Xia really a tyrannical thing?

Since the previous year, all of Emperor Xia's plans have been aimed at dealing with disasters, and he seems to know that disasters are long-term problems, so he promotes new crops, uses gunpowder to open mountains and rivers, harnesses rivers in areas where floods may occur, and allows the people of barren lands to move to Anxi Province.

It can be said that in the past two years, under the influence of disasters and wars, the strength of the other five countries has been declining, and only the national strength of Xia has been steadily rising!

In the past, it was said that Qin was the first, but now? He Li Si is the prime minister of the Qin State, and now he has no face to boast.

What's even more sad is that His Majesty's conquest of the Yuan State has not stopped, although it has now occupied a lot of land in the Yuan Kingdom, the area of nearly three counties, and it seems that the record is good, that is because the Yuan State is vast, and seventy percent of the tribes are concentrated in the east.

Now with the invasion of the Qin State, coupled with the fact that the Yuan State went south to plunder the Qi State and gained less, the Yuan State has a very high call for attacking the Qin State! The Khan of the Yuan State also had this intention for a long time, since there is no grain in the Qi State, there is a Qin State! The Qin State occupied so much land in the Zhao State, and it was time for them to bleed.

Li Si made more than one suggestion, persuading His Majesty to stop fighting and recuperate. Yuan Guo is a savage of the grassland, so he doesn't need to pay attention to it, but Emperor Qin just doesn't listen.

Just as Li Si was pondering, the roaring Emperor Qin asked, "How is the Great Qin Water Army formed?" What about the Xia Navy on the other side? ”

Li Si said: "Back to Your Majesty, there are more than 80,000 kinds of naval armies and thousands of large and small ships. The Xia navy is estimated to have 70,000, and the number of ships is almost the same as that of Great Qin. ”

Emperor Qin nodded and shouted: "Great Qin and Xia Guo will have a battle sooner or later, but the widow can see that the more it delays, the more disadvantageous it will be for Great Qin." Since you can't get a new crop by smuggling, grab it! As long as you occupy the Anxi Province of the Xia Kingdom and get the Fourteen Prefectures of Great Xia, are you still afraid that there will be no seeds for new crops? ”

Li Xi moved his mouth, he saw His Majesty's persistence, especially stimulated by the new crop, and he couldn't wait to fight Great Xia.

"Your Majesty, the sense of belonging of the people of the old land of Zhao to Daqin is still very low, and the rebels are everywhere, rashly attacking the Xia Kingdom, and Weichen is worried that the traitors of the Zhao State will take the opportunity to cause trouble!" Li Si said.

Although Zhao Guo died and Emperor Zhao hanged himself, there were still surviving Zhao Huang brothers, who were wanted by Great Qin and held a grudge against Great Qin. In addition, the old people of Zhao had a very low sense of belonging to Qin.

"Damn the old people of Zhao Kingdom! The widow has reduced his taxes, and he is not satisfied! What about Xia Guo? The Xia State occupied the fourteen counties of the Zhao State, and the old people of the Zhao State there were also like this? Emperor Qin asked.

Li Si said truthfully: "Back to Your Majesty, Emperor Xia appointed Zhang Liang as the envoy of the festival, and under his governance, the old people of Zhao State in the fourteen states have been integrated into the Xia State... The old people of Zhao began to be proud of Xia Min, and they no longer recognized Zhao Guo. Therefore, the traitors of Zhao have given up their plans to rebuild Zhao in Great Xia. ”

"Why? Is it because the officials I sent are mediocre? Emperor Qin said angrily.

Today, because of the Xia Kingdom, Emperor Qin has been angry.

Li Si said: "First, Zhang Liang does have the means, and second, it is related to the prince of Xia Kingdom. The crown prince of Xia has the blood of Emperor Zhao, and he also won over the old people of Zhao to a certain extent. ”

Emperor Qin said angrily: "Then send the Mo organization to assassinate that Zhang Liang for the widow, and also assassinate the prince of Xia Kingdom!" ”

"Wechen understands." Li Si responded.

Having said that, the plan to attack the Xia Kingdom was temporarily shelved.

In a year and a half, the six countries of Shenzhou have been turbulent.

What about Daxia?

What has Prince Xiao Rui done in the past year and a half?